Collar-button.



PATENTBD JAN. 30, 1906.

C. F. RODGERS. COLLAR BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED MAYB. 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed May 3i 1905. Serial No. 258,668.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CLARENCE F. RODGERS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Conneaut, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Buttons, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to devise a novel form ofcollar-button which will prevent movement of the necktie after the samehas been properly adjusted, the button having a spur foldable withreference to its head to admit of the spur being projected to engagewith the necktie or to be withdrawn, so as to be out of the way.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1is a detail view of a collar-button embodying my invention, part of thehead being broken away. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the spurprojected. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the button-head in Fig. 1.

' Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

Referring to the drawings, 6 designates the head of the collar-button,and 7 the shank thereof. The head 6 is provided with a slot 9, formed inits outer face, and a spur 8 is movable or pivoted and operates in thesaid slot, as shown. A pin 10 pivotally connects the spur 8 to the head6. The pivotal end or butt of the spur 8 is provided with two faces 11and 12, which, in conjunction with a spring-plate 13, holds the spureither closed, as shown in Fig. 1, or projecting, as illustrated in Fig.2. The spring 13 constitutes the plate generally employed for closingthe rear side of the head.

When not required for immediate use the spur 8 may be pressed or movedinwardly at its outer end, so as to lie flush with the plane of the saidslot, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and in this position it is heldretracted by the action of the spring-plate 18 against the straight edgeor face 12. When the spur is desired for use, it is turned outwardly, asshown in Fig. 2, and is then held projected by the spring-plate 13exertinga pressure against the other straight edge or face 11.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is As a newarticle of manufacture a collarbutton provided with a head, aspring-plate forming a closure for the rear face of said head and thelatter being provided on its outer face with a slot and a spur pivotedto said head within the slot and provided on its butt-end with two facesset at an obtuse angle with relation to each other and designed to bearagainst the spring-closure for the rear face of the head, whereby saidclosure may hold said spur either flush with the plane of said slot orprotruded therefrom according against which face of said spur theclosure bears.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLARENCE r. RODGERS. [1 s]

